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This is great - I've actually started building something similar myself a few months ago. Requests: - Split Spanish between Spain and Latin America - Add difficulty levels (consider speaking speed and vocabulary used) - Ability to select which topics I want the videos to be about (e.g. science, celebrity gossip, AI)
The English icon has the Union Jack flag rather than the US flag, so it automatically elevates the service above Duolingo for me.
That’s the problem with conflating nations and language. For example, the very first English video I got was a South African English accent.
Of the five languages I have configured in KDE, three of them are country-specific. So I use the flag indicator, which is far quicker for me to locate and identify out of the corner of my eye than would be a text label (which would require using the retina and thus more time and attention).
Great stuff! Small UX thing: Make it so you can just click a word to fill in the next empty spot, instead of having to drag, similar to when building sentences in Duolingo. Especially when not on a touchscreen, having to drag is pretty painful and reduces accessibility.
ps. video shouldn't loop as default, it's annoying.
The English icon has the Union Jack flag rather than the US flag, so it automatically elevates the service above Duolingo for me.
You would be far more likely to understand any given English speaking person in the USA than in England. It should really be called American at this point.
Great stuff! Small UX thing: Make it so you can just click a word to fill in the next empty spot, instead of having to drag, similar to when building sentences in Duolingo. Especially when not on a touchscreen, having to drag is pretty painful and reduces accessibility.
Aaa, you saved me, thought it's broken, but you have to drag this thing! ps. video shouldn't loop as default, it's annoying.
Re, looping; there are controls to turn it off. You aren’t paying attention one bit. If you’re going to say things, at least be diligent in the things you are going to address.
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Aaa, you saved me, thought it's broken, but you have to drag this thing! ps. video shouldn't loop as default, it's annoying.
You didn’t even read the most basic settings that clearly say “click and drag interface” or something similar. But I still agree, tapping/clicking should work in sequential order eventually (it’s not as easy to implement). Re, looping; there are controls to turn it off. You aren’t paying attention one bit. If you’re going to say things, at least be diligent in the things you are going to address.
I've checked out the Japanese one, but I'd say that it's definitely no where near "real-world content" IMO. Just the usual tortuously slow-paced, artificially dumbed-down dialogue you'd expect out of classroom recordings. Most of the videos also contain subtitles, which defeats the purpose of the exercises (you can disable the video manually though). Another issue is that some of the words are segmented very unnatura…
I immediately noticed that too. Are the "gaps" generated by an LLM? I think the model might not understand Japanese very well.